Infra Engineer — Kubernetes, Kafka & Cloud Ops

Formal; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Formal is building a network security platform for the AI era, and this role leads the infrastructure behind high-scale deployments. You will drive migration to Kubernetes, operate reliable clusters, and advance cloud and on‑prem deployments across AWS/Google Cloud.

We expect hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Go or Python, and a track record of owning services through incidents and upgrades. This is a full-time, on-site role in San Francisco with competitive compensation and stock

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud using Terraform.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, ingress, autoscaling, and upgrades.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, and load balancing.
• Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or another relevant programming language.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and operating data pipelines or distributed APIs in production.
• A track record of automating operational work and owning services through incidents and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Lead our migration to Kubernetes and operate reliable clusters, networking, access controls, and data services.
• Scale Kafka-to-Quickwit ingestion and search; improve throughput, indexing lag, API latency, and storage costs.
• Build repeatable on-prem installations and upgrades, including configuration, data migrations, and rollback.
• Establish useful alerts and reliability targets; lead incident response and eliminate recurring failures.
• Automate provisioning with Terraform and Helm; improve CI/CD, capacity planning, backups, and recovery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Go

Python

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Formal is building a network security platform for the AI era, and this role leads the infrastructure behind high-scale deployments. You will drive migration to Kubernetes, operate reliable clusters, and advance cloud and on‑prem deployments across AWS/Google Cloud.

We expect hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Go or Python, and a track record of owning services through incidents and upgrades. This is a full-time, on-site role in San Francisco with competitive compensation and stock